Massive Yellowjackets Nest Found In An Old Barn

Yappy Beeman
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Published 2022-10-22
She Found This Massive Yellowjacket wasp nest In Her Barn And Immediately Called Me (Don't Try This At Home)
This is Part 2 of 2 colonies I removed FYI.......Enjoy
The PT 1 video can be seen here....    • Massive Yellow Jacket Nest Uncovered ...  


Welcome back to another amazing episode with Yappy Beeman. What a great season it has been for me and its closely coming to an end but not just yet. I received a phone call from a customer that believed she had a honey bee infestation in her barn. And to add a little excitement, thought it might be 2 colonies. Well that really got my attention and I couldn't wait to go meet her and the bees. The only problem is that this time of year, there is a huge chance that they may actually not be honey bees. Fall is the window where I get more wasp, hornet and yellow jacket nest removal calls than bees. So going into this one already had me skeptical.
When I arrived my suspicions were confirmed. Southern Yellow Jacket wasps in both situations. Oh well, as much as I love to remove honeybees, this would still make for some great fun.
I hope you enjoy the experience from that side of the screen. I promise it is much safer than from my perspective. Please don't forget to hit that "like" button and help promote the video. I hope this helps others understand that bees, wasps and yellowjackets can be dangerous and only an experienced person should mess with removing them.


I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and remember, I am a trained professional.....wink wink. Don't try this at home. or anywhere else for that matter.

Honeybees can always be dangerous and it is not recommended to attempt to remove them with experience with bees or construction knowledge.
I hope you enjoy this little bit of fun. I enjoy your feedback in the comments and thank you for taking the time to check out my channel. Until the next time, enjoy the show.

Yappy Beeman is a professional bee remover performing live honey bee removals in Alabama as "Alabama Bee Rescue" and relocates them to apiaries away from residential areas so they can rebuild and thrive as a honey bee colony producing honey. Yappy is an Alabama Beekeepers association member that has performed over 1000 live bee removals. Yappy with the help of his great friends Jpthebeeman, 628 Dirtrooster bees, Jeff Horchoff and many others, I have learned many skills to remove bee swarms and honey bee colonies safely for the bees and home owners alike.

@628DirtRooster Bees @JPthebeeman @Jeff Horchoff Bees @brucesbees @Nature’s Image Farm -Greg Burns @Castle Hives @Darryl Patton @Bohemia Bees @The California Beekeeper @Hornet King

Here is a little bee educational material for ya.
Africanized honey bees (known colloquially as "killer bees") are hybrids between European stock and the East African lowland subspecies A. m. scutellata; they are often more aggressive than European honey bees and do not create as much of a honey surplus, but are more resistant to disease and are better foragers.[23] Accidentally released from quarantine in Brazil, they have spread to North America and constitute a pest in some regions. However, these strains do not overwinter well, so they are not often found in the colder, more northern parts of North America. The original breeding experiment for which the East African lowland honey bees were brought to Brazil in the first place has continued (though not as originally intended). Novel hybrid strains of domestic and re-domesticated Africanized honey bees combine high resilience to tropical conditions and good yields. They are popular among beekeepers in Brazil.
Honey bees appear to have their center of origin in South and Southeast Asia (including the Philippines), as all the extant species except Apis mellifera are native to that region. Notably, living representatives of the earliest lineages to diverge (Apis florea and Apis andreniformis) have their center of origin there.
All Comments (21)
  • @Jim1Tom
    Hope everyone and everything is well. Good to see you again..
  • @nightraider7579
    Got stung 46 times when I was 3 yrs. old. Yep, rolled my tricycle right over the top of a huge yellow jackets nest in the ground. My sister who was 9 yrs. old at the time and my hero that day, grabbed me of my tricycle, ran me in the house to my mom who was cooking dinner at the time. My sister didn’t get stung at all!!! I never will forget the pain from that and I thank GOD I wasn’t allergic to them. The ER Dr. told my mom he couldn’t believe there was an underground nest that big.
  • @minerran
    I grew up around yellowjackets and yes they can sting thru pants and socks. You need more protection.
  • @donbearden1953
    Yappy, I love your new title “Yappy The Bee & Wasp Man”! By the way, you hit the jackpot on this one. I hope it hits a new viral goal!
  • @garrisonbeehives5959
    Thanks for Jasons Hat. He said he would take a picture of you wearing it and the picture to me.
  • @sandreid87
    Ive watched quite a lot of your videos now, and I have always been so impressed how you never used any protection when dealing with bees. Being used to primarily yellowjackets where I live, I'm SO happy to see that even someone, as experienced as yourself, is very respectful of yellowjackets.
  • @americandefender6884
    I was stung by one last week! My hand was swollen for nearly 3 days! They were coming from everywhere! I never thought of using a hand vac! Thanks for sharing!
  • @zzydny
    Oh that looks painful! Glad you are okay.
  • @bobgiles2971
    It seems like this year they are everywhere great video definitely a like crazy but you always seem to get the job done
  • @traneawilson6024
    I love the way honeybee hives look. Yellow jackets' homes look scary.
  • @craigoakman6268
    Wow Yappy, that was great to watch. I'm a kiwi and in New Zealand we have a wasp infestation problem in the South Island. There are what is called "Black Beech" forests. The trees are backish because of a fungus? and bug. The bug oozes out a honey like substance that wasps go crazy over. The largest nest that I know of was six feet long into the ground! I myself in my tramping days had a wash in a river with two nests side by side. I just could never relax! By the way, thanks to this vid I now realize that Americans saying Yellow Jackets are what we refer to as wasps. Thanks again for the vid.
  • @str_
    all the wasps crawling on the camera really added a lot of immersion
  • @crocheting-around-the-planet
    Yeh, part 2… great video Mr Yappy 🐝. Looked & sounded painful… hope u recovered from the stings 🫢🤛🏼